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Flynn, I hadn't read the Blackest Night issue in question (still haven't, probably never going to) but from what I understand Selina's sister thinks she's possessed by a cat demon. I don't think I'm missing much. Except I dunno who the angel guy is but I assume that'll be resolved in the next issue.

Flynn, I hadn't read the Blackest Night issue in question (still haven't, probably never going to) but from what I understand Selina's sister thinks she's possessed by a cat demon. I don't think I'm missing much. Except I dunno who the angel guy is but I assume that'll be resolved in the next issue.

Yeah, I've kind of gleaned that. But based on the solicit, there was no mention of Maggie Kyle being in it. I guess that's why I was so irked by it - there was no head's up that, in order to have a better understanding of what is going on in this issue, one should have read or at least been familiar with another issue.

Zero wrote:Oh the bait-and-switch solicit thing is just ridiculous, and the book should be 100% returnable to DC. Like I maybe said earlier, I'd rather have skip months than filler if the filler's like this.

Zero wrote:Oh the bait-and-switch solicit thing is just ridiculous, and the book should be 100% returnable to DC. Like I maybe said earlier, I'd rather have skip months than filler if the filler's like this.

Punchy, you'll have to repeat that. I have you on ignore

they are. Marvel is the only publisher that disregards any kind of fair play in solicits. That is why there was a HUGE retailer outcry about Fallen Sun

I had trouble reading this. It's not my kind of book, and I don't care about the characters at all.

The art is not as bad as most of you say. It's competent and, in some places, rather good. But it is not consistent. The book starts off strong. The first splash page is detailed and dynamic, but halfway through, the backgrounds seem to disappear and the characters end up inhabiting a lot of empty space. The worst pages are the ones with the blood splatter panels. It's as though the artist was running out of time and decided ink sprays over a face would suffice as storytelling.

STORY: 3
ART: 6.5

OVERALL: 4.75

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